Thursday, December 20, 2012

James
Mahan (Mayhem) is a visual artist and musician from the Boston area.
His visual work deals with sequential abstract images and texts. These
images are previews from an upcoming abstract graphic novella, "
Memories from a Tragic Love Affair".http://jamezmahan.tumblr.com/

They say imitation is the sincerest for of flattery. It all
originates from this: http://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/38549,
which is a processing sketch and concept for my very own asemic
machine (without looking to the original code, believe it or
not); a set of circles, each of them rotating independently. In my
version I add as many circles as I can think of, with the
last one marking the path it follows, it somehow -- though it is
bound by its strict mathematical definition -- resembles fluid
human writing.

Further studies are to follow: concentric asemics (as per attached),
asemics in color, areas filled with tiny asemic writing, asemics
symmetric with respect to a selected point and whatever else comes to
the mind of the author.

The script itself awaits to be cleaned and polished. Its current
version does not deserve to be let loose to the public; once it's
available, you will be the first one to know.

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Welcome to The New Post-Literate: A Gallery of Asemic Writing. This gallery serves as a base for an international group of artists, writers, readers, and viewers. I am currently seeking submissions for August 2018. Please send your submissions, under 8mb, as jpgs, gifs, and png.